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> Increasing car dependence in the last 50 years is not a trend I am personally observing.

You’re just not looking then. You mention the Giants and the A’s but conveniently leave out the 49ers.

The vast majority of families in the US do not live anywhere near public transit like Bart of Caltrain. I appreciate that they’ve been built, but far more roads and highways have been built over that same timeframe.

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Perhaps the 49ers were left out because the article references the cost to attend a baseball game, whose league (MLB) requires a team to host 81 home games per season which requires much greater consideration for public transportation than the 8 home games hosted each year by professional football teams.

The 49ers moved from the almost completely car-only Candlestick to a new stadium in Santa Clara that is served directly by Capitol Corridor and ACE trains and has its own VTA streetcar station and is accessed by the San Tomas Aquino Creek and Guadalupe River bike and pedestrian trails. The trend over the last 50 years is clearly away from car dependence.

> The trend over the last 50 years is clearly away from car dependence.

It’s just…not. I don’t know how else to state it. Maybe it is for you. Maybe it is for the Bay Area. But nationwide it’s just simply not.

>The trend over the last 50 years is clearly away from car dependence.

Uh... no. The few streetcars and bike trails built are drowned out by the massive growth in suburbs and people living even further away from city centers (or these stadiums).

Your trend comparison is leaving out the majority of the picture.

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